Tag Archives: Obama

Yum! Brands pulls China TV ad mocking Obama

February 10, 2011 – 10:05 am

Whether it’s fake beef, fascist chickens or toaster oven-shaped stadiums, the Louisville-based fast food giant Yum! Brands is no stranger to bad press, but flattening President Obama with a fish sandwich in a foreign country might’ve went too far. Besides hiring an actor who looks nothing like the president, Yum! Brands apologized for the caricature [...]

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Obama Pushes Button, Creates Xmas Magic

December 4, 2009 – 5:08 pm

Do you need anything more than this? Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree. [NPR] Here’s some video of the event, which featured Sheryl Crow, Common and a non-H1N1-infected Santa Claus impersonator. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-0fA3clJB4[/youtube]

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GaGa Trumps Obama On LGBT Rights

October 16, 2009 – 3:14 pm

Did you know that, during a Human Rights Council-sponsored dinner on the eve of last Sunday’s National Equality March that a pop star (Ms. GaGa) usurped the leader of the free world’s (Mr. Obama’s) mantle as Gay Defender of The Known Universe, a title first created by William Jefferson Clinton? Well, now you do.

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Obama Traumatizes Child By Talking To Him Like An Adult

October 16, 2009 – 2:43 pm

If they’re not falling out of balloons in this beloved nation, then a child is most certainly being indoctrinated by our good president’s morals. At a New Orleans town hall, Terrence Scott, a fourth grader, asks Obama “Why do people hate you?” “Take it with a grain of salt,” replies the socialist, explaining with customary [...]

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How To Not Contract Swine Flu

April 27, 2009 – 7:44 am

Put down that breakfast pork sandwich, friend, and listen up: (1) Don’t go to Mexico any time soon, even though it’d be super cheap right now… unless you happen to be our crazy-ass President, in which case don’t wash your hands until they’ve shook Kim Jong-Il’s. (2) Don’t eat the sweet, delicious pork. But if [...]

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High Speed Louisville

April 16, 2009 – 7:56 pm

Once upon a time, Kentucky’s sole Amtrak line, the Cardinal, provided slow and costly rail transportation to people who preferred to drive alone, thought trains were for the birds, and voted for Anne “Fuck Trains” Northup. Since we’ve been without passenger rail service, the country has experienced price shocks in the per barrel cost of [...]

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Lunchbox: Halloween edition

October 31, 2008 – 1:00 am

Cool toys: Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2008 include a retail DNA test, just in case you have some immediate paternity questions. Mr. Hope’s hangmen caught: Two UK students were arrested for hanging an Obama effigy from a tree on campus. They said it was in response to the Palin mannequin hung from a balcony [...]

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